Eating like kings

A couple of days before my big trip to Spain where I will contest the 2016 Tour de Prostate I got to wondering about the details. So I called up Ol’ Grizzles who was more than happy to take the 76th call of the day from anxious participants wondering about which gears, which tires, and which syringes to bring.

“Hey, man,” I said. “I been wondering.”

“Yeah?” he said.

“Yeah. What about food?”

“What about it?”

“Like, what’s the eating situation? Should I be bringing BonkBreaker bars and BeachBody elixir [*note pro placement of club sponsors smack in the beginning of the post, where exposure will be maximum, before  readers close the window when they see their name isn’t mentioned]?”

“Dude,” he said, “there are a lot of things to worry about, for example Stig the freak who has been in Mallorca for the last week and already logged a thousand kilometers.”

“So he’ll be worn out by the time we get there.”

“Or you could worry about your candy California ass and how the Ted Cruz Contingent is gonna tear your legs off.”

“As long as you Cruz Campaigners agree to carry any and all of your non-viable attacks to term, that’s fine. How’s his campaign doing, by the way?”

“Or you could worry about the fact that we’ll do more hard riding in the first two days than you’ve done all year.”

“Hmmm,” I said.

“But the one thing you don’t need to worry about is food. We’ll be eating like kings.”

“Really?”

“Dude. We get up, hop on our bikes ride for a couple of hours, grab a huge lunch, ride a couple more hours, get back to the villa, and eat a huge dinner. There’s food everywhere, all the time.”

“Cool,” I said, and hung up.

This morning you can imagine my surprise when I got the following email from Leiv, the Director of Hospitality. Here is his missive:

Wanky and Grizzles,

Since you are arriving first, you will be required to visit these premises for acquiring the below list of essentials as stipulated by me.

Hiper Centro, Inca
Avinguda General Luque
Inca, Illes Balears, España

These items required for your purchase are not voluntary but are stipulated as required purchases to ensure that governing dietary needs are met durational for our enjoyable together time and nutrition proper for exercise and recovery.

1. Beer, regular Pilsner type, 300 bottles, 330ml
2. Beer, dark type and Weisbier, 100 bottles each and however way
3. Cava, 36 bottles, based on their selection but preference is from these two producers which are not voluntary but stipulated by mutual order and consent: Millésime 2011 or Gran Reserva Brut or Reserva de la Familia or Gran Reserva Brut Nature 2010  by  Juvé y Camps, Cava, España
4. Heretats, 12 bottles, Gran Reserva  2009 or MIM Brut Reserva  2010 or Pinot Brut Reserva Rosé  2011 by  Vins el Cep, Cava, España
5. Rose wine, 10-15 bottles, free selection with stipulation of no American vinegar tasting
6. White wine, 10-15 bottles, free selection with stipulation of no American vinegar tasting
7. Red wine, 10-15 bottles, free selection with stipulation of young wine, Tempranillo grape, Spanish only
8. Bottled water, 1-3 bottles for Seth, stipulation for purchase in litres, a measurement unknown to provincials and Americans
9. Coke/Soda, 1-3 bottles for Seth or other babies
10. Milk, 0% fat, 50 litres for morning recovery and general healthfulness
11. Juice, selection 40-50 litres, with stipulation of nothing from concentrate due to unhealthfulness
12. Tonic water, 14 litres for healthy mixture with stipulated hard alcohol
13. Limes, 80, for healthy mixture with stipulated hard alcohol
14. Lemons, 45, for healthy mixture with stipulated hard alcohol
15. Red chili peppers, 25-30, for healthy mixture of cooking and proper bowel
16. Spring onions, 10-15 singles, for more proper bowel and health
17. Red onions, 10-15, very good for extra proper bowel
18. Yellow onions, 2-3, moderate bowel yet stipulated flavoring
19. Bell peppers, 13, dinner garnishing and healthy vegetable
20. One lettuce, healthy bowel roughage
21. One cucumber
22. One honey melon
23. One cantaloupe melon
24. Charentis / Gaia / Ogen melon, 2 each for bowel roughage
25. Ripe!!! Mango, 4, stipulated vitamin for replenishment of bodily fluids
26. Avocado, 10 ripe for chili mixture
27. Cillantro, a good heap for green chlorophyll benefits
28. Basil, a good pot or heap for concentrated chlorophyll benefits
29. Mint, a good pot or heap for freshy breath
30. Garlic, net of 10 for fart reduction
31. Olive oil, virgin 15 litres for various stipulated cooking and healthy fart reduction
32. Corn oil, 1 litre, less healthy but cheap and healthy for stipulated budget
33. Balsamic vinegar, 1 litre, extremely bowel health
34. Sweet soy sauce (black stuff, small bottle ok)
35. Regular soy sauce, salty type, 1 litre
36. Rice wine vinegar (with the sushi stuff and Asian people area of the stipulated market), 1 litre
37. Mustard, Dijon type for various health application
38. Sesame seeds for bowel roughage
39. Wheat flour, 15 kg for regular morning baking
40. Maldon salt (pack) for flavoring
41. Pepper (ground, one glass + one mill glass)
42. Sugar 25 kg, for all applications and cooking meals to assignment as stipulated and manufacture of home made energy bar for cycling
43.  Breakfast oats, 20 kg, for daily logging of morning cooking and lunchtime meals
44. Butter 5 kg, for all cooking procedures as stipulated and bowels
45. Eggs, breakfast mainly, 13 dozen, but application as needed throughout day and as hunger dictates late-night omelette production
46. Cheese, a selection yet refraining from heavily stinking goat type
47. Pata negra ham (several different please), 12 kg for much protein throughout all times
48. Boiled ham, 2 kg, for chewing
49. Jam, one or two glass for application with bread to be baked each morning fresh as each stipulated member takes turns on morning baking crew
50. Bacon, 10 kg, for frying and healthy aroma to be assembled by morning baking crew on rotations
51. Yoghurt, 12 litres for hangover absorbtion and bowel
52. Nuts, selection of hazel, almonds, walnuts for dessert and hangover rapid absorption
53. Snack chips, beer nuts, etc. for frequent ingestion and hangover delay
54. Shampoo
55. Soap
56. Toilet paper
57. Cling foil
58. Aluminum foil
59. Toilet paper written twice because forgetfulness of this stipulation would result problematic in catastrophe
60. Kitchen paper
61. Trash bags
62. Extra ration beer and wine for emergency
63. Low grade tequila for stipulation of necessity
64. Medium grade whiskey for washing down parts of beer and wine
65. Flavored liqueur
66. Vodka, varying prices but all cheap, please

The individual cooking crews will by stipulation be on assignment and in shifts with new members beginning cook shift at 5:00 AM or early as by stipulation of senior members’ dietary stipulation and awakening schedule. Cooking crew rotational shift designation will be throughout each day with new members carrying proportionally heavy stipulation preparation and cooking and shopping load until Year 2 when seniority accrues by stipulation.

Thank you.

So now at least one thing is clear. We’ll be eating like kings, all right, but in order to do it we’ll be needing a few slaves.

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